{"id":7567,"date":"2019-07-29T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T05:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coffeeobsession.com.au\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2023-10-20T04:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:50:39","slug":"good-news-for-australian-citizenship-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/good-news-for-australian-citizenship-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for Australian Citizenship Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Department of Home Affairs, the number of applicants granted Australian citizenship has doubled compared to last year with waiting times also dramatically decreasing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data released by the Department has indicated the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Waiting time for Australian citizenship has dropped by 10%<\/li>\n<li>The time from lodgement to ceremony (by conferral) has dropped for 75% of applicants from 20 to 18 months<\/li>\n<li>From 1 July 2018 and 30 April 2019, around double the number of people were approved as Australian citizens compared to the same period in the preceding year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department claims the decreased waiting time is a result of reforms implemented to streamline the process.<\/p>\n<p>Although over 200,000 people are still awaiting their citizenship outcome, this is a significant decrease from the 250,000 compared to last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment opportunities in New Zealand continue to grow as the New Zealand Government target businesses, investors and entrepreneurs as they focus on rebuilding their economy through investment and immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}